Re: [Bodington-developers] Spanish Bodington

[Jon M. <jo...@te...>]

Do you think that contact might be interested in supporting a 
translation project?

Jon

Paul Davis wrote:

>I've just done something I'd been promising for a while - a follow-up to
>people who had received a demo CD or download.  It came to about 180 valid
>names since we took over in August last year - by valid I took out
>duplicates and obvious mistooks.
>One response was along the lines of "It looks good, but I'd be even more
>interested if it was in Spanish"
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>Paul
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>From: "Jon Maber" <jo...@te...>
>To: <bod...@li...>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 7:49 PM
>Subject: Re: [Bodington-developers] Spanish Bodington
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>>Alistair Young wrote:
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>>>Thanks for your kind comments Jon :)
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>>Kind comments? Couldn't you hear the sarcastic way I typed that? ;-)
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>>>The i18n only works for xml templates though. If someone needed the whole
>>>site in Spanish it would mean a lot of conversion to new style templates.
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>>>Then again, that was one of my many jobs, to identify the most used ones
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>>>from the logs...
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>>Well I think the conversion of the templates would be a relatively small
>>task
>>compared to the job of translating.  (I've had hours of conversation
>>with people
>>about how to translate VLE into spanish and I don't think we ever did
>>come to
>>a conclusion. It's the word environment that causes the problems since the
>>Spanish equivalent really only refers to outdoors envirnoments, the
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>climate,
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>>flora and fauna etc. It's debates like this that slow things down
>>because the only
>>proper solution is to consult people who work in this field in Spain and
>>of course
>>that takes time.)
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>>By the way, isn't there an automation tool for converting the templates?
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>>Jon
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